It's from Chapelle's Show, chill
Of course I took a shot at responding, and since I am quite happy with the response (and especially the gif since it seems crazy but actually ties in with what I wrote perfectly - but it for sure shocked the hell out of a bunch of Centians), I'll share it here as well. Enjoy.
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Out of curiosity I'd like to read a longer explanation where you explain why you wrote what you wrote. Like what does 'mind's eye' mean to you?
Anyways, I love to look at how ancient cultures thought of and represented basic concepts like 'life' to help me understand those concepts on a deeper level.
In classical Chinese life is represented by the character '生' which signifies the sprouting of a blade of grass or tree. Explicitly then life is the birth of something, but implicit within the birth of anything is both growth and ultimately death. So life in the ancient past was thought of as the birth, growth and death of anything.
While everything may have a life, the life of any human is valued higher than anything else in our modern times. This is no more clearly expressed than in the character set '人生' which means 'life' in modern Chinese, Korean or Japanese. Unlike in classical Chinese, however, the symbol for person or '人' has been attached to '生' to make explicitly clear that process of birth, growth and death of any human.
Thus life today is nothing more than the process of birth, growth and death that any human lives.
What is super interesting for me is that from this understanding of the apparent difference between how life may have been thought of in the past versus how it is actually thought of today, it seems to show that, at least in a broad general sense, we as humans are the only creatures who have the power to define what life is as well as it's relative value.
And as I wrote that, I just realized that that was probably what you realized too which is probably why you wrote what you wrote.
*mind blown*
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